So this one football player didn't want to stand up, and a bunch of people lost their shit.

I'm largely neutral on the matter, actually, that probably isn't exactly true. If anything I'm completely baffled about this whole thing.

We have this video that's made the rounds.

Don't hear much about the killing that Mrs. Hubbard brings attention to. No national outrage. And then a football player decides not to stand up and the internet and society lights the fuck up over it? Really? Maybe it's because I never really cared about any of these 'ball sports but I don't really see why the words of some guy who makes a living tossing around a ball gets more weight than anyone else's.

Lets get something straight first, I'm not saying he should shut-up. Far from it, he has the right to stay seated under the 1st Amendment. What I'm saying is, that he's full of shit, and that I'm completely baffled over all the attention he gets.

Now why do I think he's full of shit? Well what would he know about what goes down on the streets? What makes him qualified to speak for other Blacks and People of Color (which includes me). He gets paid millions just to throw around a lopsided ball, he doesn't even have a real job (I know I'm going to catch shit for that one, but I don't consider being a professional athlete to be a real job any more than I considering being a professional gamer to be a real job.). He's the elite of society, up there at the top. I look at him as no different that the ivory tower dwellers in academia, his tower might not be ivory but he's up in a tower none-the-less.

I also doubt his sincerity, since how long has the Black Lives Matter movement been going on? And only now, when there's talk of him getting cut from the team, that he pulls this stunt? You ask me he's only doing this to draw attention to himself, and to kick up controversy if he does get kicked from the team. He can claim that he got the boot from the team because he didn't stand up for the anthem, not because he was under performing.

The real kicker is when I see Colin wearing a shirt with Fidel Castro on them. Like "hey dumbass, you know you wouldn't be making millions and have all your sports gear endorsement deals under a communist regime right? You also know that if you snubbed the Castro regime the way you did here, you'd be thrown into a political prison and likely tortured right?" This is why I doubt his sincerity and is only doing this for attention. He doesn't even bother to do basic research on personal liberties here compared to in a communist regime like Cuba? Go back to what you know, and that what you knows is playing with balls.

On a personal note, he certainly doesn't speak for me. I can fight my own battles and I sure as fuck don't need someone who gets paid millions just to toss and kick around a lopsided ball to speak for this particular person of color. Him and I have nothing in common and nothing to relate over, at least in how we view society, and therefore he is no position to speak for me.

But so fucking what though, at the end of day I don't really care all that much about what some ball juggler has to say on a matter that's unrelated to his game. What baffles me is why society gives so much weight to something that some chump who plays municipal park games, or some chump who acts in generic movies has to say over what some random person says? This Colin... what ever the fuck is name is, isn't a sociologist or a historian, someone who understands these things on an in depth level, or someone who makes public policy. Same goes for someone like Matt Daemon, he's a fucking actor not a criminalist, a forensic specialist, law enforcement officer, judge or criminal attorney, so what the fuck does he know about guns and associated crime? Given that, why the fuck do people care about what they have to say on a given topic that isn't related to what they do on a regular basis? What Colin or Matt have to say on those given topics is no different that any other pedestrian opinion from a random person on the street.

Celebrity status doesn't make one an expert on a given topic. Sure I would take a helicopter piloting course taught by Harrison Ford, but that's not because I want to take pilot's course by Indiana Jones, it's because Harrison Ford actually has a pilot's licence. On the same token I wouldn't take anything Colin has to say about socio-political-economic issues, any more authoritative than a random person on the street. He's not an expert on the field, and for all it seems, it just looks like he's parroting left-wing talking points. Wearing a shirt with a communist despot while taking great financial benefits from a capitalist system just tells me all I need to know about what he knows about the topic.

But that's ok, no one needs to be a field expert to have an opinion or something. That's not what I'm saying.

What is getting me is why do people care about what a celebrity non-expert says on a topic more than what any other person has to say? I guess some of you are wondering what makes me qualified to make social commentary, well one same as Colin, it's my 1st Amendment right to do so, second I hold degrees in Political Science, Law, and a certificate in basic forensic science. So I kind of know a thing or two about this shit, but that's beside the point, as I said, you don't need to be an expert to voice an opinion. More importantly though, I also don't claim to speak for the oppression of "Asians and People of Color" I only fucking speak for myself. But what gives one pedestrian opinion more weight than another one? A team jersey? The word "Starring" in front of someone's name?

Is THIS what makes your voice matter? A nylon shirt with tiny holes in it?

Where's the national outrage over the situation that Mrs. Hubbard brought to light? Why isn't this getting national attention? If she threw around a ball would more people pay attention to what she had to say? She's a Navy veteran, she served this country, this motherfucker only plays a game for a living, why does he get more attention?

But at the end of the day, the free of speech allows for all manner of speech. I'm not going to tell him to shut-up since it isn't my place (though I can say he doesn't speak for me), no more than it isn't a psychotic sport's fanatic's place to tell me to shut-up over my comment that playing sports isn't a real job. He's free and has the right to voice his opinion, and I'll stand by his right to do so. But why the fuck does his voice carry more weight, why the fuck does his voice get the national outrage, and when all he's said are the same political buzzwords that others have been saying before him. We've heard all the shit he's said before, so why do people lose their shit when it's nothing new?

In other words, why do we care about what Colin Kaepernick (or any other celebrity) has to say, and not someone else?

To Mr. Kaepernick, use your right, say what you have to say, and say it proudly. But to me, yours just another dime a dozen. pedestrian opinion from some guy who's main qualifications is playing a glorified game of catch with a lopsided ball.